Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case

Patients with mobile aortic arch atheroma and severe aortic regurgitation may be at higher risk of systemic embolism. We report the case of a 68-year-old male patient with complex aortic arch plaque with superimposed thrombus, in which an acute inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction occurred. I...

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Autores principales: Parato, Vito Maurizio, Cardinali, Alfredo, Scarano, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31392120
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_72_18
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author Parato, Vito Maurizio
Cardinali, Alfredo
Scarano, Michele
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description Patients with mobile aortic arch atheroma and severe aortic regurgitation may be at higher risk of systemic embolism. We report the case of a 68-year-old male patient with complex aortic arch plaque with superimposed thrombus, in which an acute inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction occurred. In the reported case, coronary embolism may have been caused by flaked aortic plaque and/or superimposed thrombus, which was possibly carried by aortic regurgitation flow. It is a very rare mechanism by which a coronary embolism is possible from an aortic complex plaque.
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spelling pubmed-66574642019-08-07 Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case Parato, Vito Maurizio Cardinali, Alfredo Scarano, Michele J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Patients with mobile aortic arch atheroma and severe aortic regurgitation may be at higher risk of systemic embolism. We report the case of a 68-year-old male patient with complex aortic arch plaque with superimposed thrombus, in which an acute inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction occurred. In the reported case, coronary embolism may have been caused by flaked aortic plaque and/or superimposed thrombus, which was possibly carried by aortic regurgitation flow. It is a very rare mechanism by which a coronary embolism is possible from an aortic complex plaque. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6657464/ /pubmed/31392120 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_72_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Parato, Vito Maurizio
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Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title_full Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title_fullStr Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title_full_unstemmed Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title_short Aortic Regurgitation as a Risk Factor for Coronary Embolization from Complex Atheromatous Aortic Plaques: A Clinical Case
title_sort aortic regurgitation as a risk factor for coronary embolization from complex atheromatous aortic plaques: a clinical case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31392120
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_72_18
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